What an amazing design no obvious points of failure.😍

@RapidChangeATC

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! yes it is very reliable.

Hola,que precio tiene el kit de cambio rapido de herramientas? O donde puedo informarme?.un saludo

I started a similar project years back. But I did never complete it 😅 my vfd broke down at the time I was about to make some test. can I use my own tool magazine in your mach3 screenset? Great work guys! We need more of you.!

@RapidChangeATC

10 ай бұрын

Why not? I would be interested in how it goes!

I like your gantry mill design. Did you make it out of wood?

@RapidChangeATC

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment and question! It is made from natural paper phenolic resin sheets it is very rigid and heavy. It has a wood grain laminate. I ended up with a lot of it after a commercial remodel job I had done and found it was a great material for building this machine.

Is this relying on the torque of the spindle to open and close the nut? This might be a little bit under the recommended values for an ER collet.

@RapidChangeATC

Жыл бұрын

When analyzing the physics, the actual torque of the spindle its self plays only a small role. it is the inertia of the spindle that delivers the clamping force. 800w spindles need to spin a bit faster at engagement than a 2.2 KW. I get asked about torque all the time, and for good reason. I assumed it would not be sufficient. So when it proved to deliver enough torque, I began the quest to make it reliable and repeatable because at first it was not. I took me 7 months to get the inner workings right. Test magazine stat going out this week and soon we'll have feedback!

@fabianbrock

Жыл бұрын

@@RapidChangeATC ok, I now see it when playing back the video slower. This way you get of course a lot more torque. Interesting ATC, keep us updated on how it performs over time.

@RapidChangeATC

Жыл бұрын

One other thing to consider is that the published torque values are only given for the MAXIMUM torque values. I once tightened a collet nut holding the spindle with a wrench and applying torque by hand to the nut and made some rather deep cuts in Cherry with no slipping. but the RapidChange magazine delivers much more torque than that.

@RapidChangeATC

Жыл бұрын

@@fabianbrock I will for sure! Test magazines begin going out this week. all around the world so feed back is coming soon!

@xyzspec82

Жыл бұрын

I wanna try this 😊

When do you expect to offer this commercially?

@RapidChangeATC

Жыл бұрын

We plan to launch July 4th.

Do you think that this system can work with the KRESS Spindle FM-1050 and the Planet CNC board? If you think it will, I will be happy to pay the fee and participate in the field testing with my custom-made router. No problem for me to spend some time testing the macro for the ATC. If not, I was considering upgrading to a VFD...

@RapidChangeATC

Жыл бұрын

So I took a quick look at the FM-1050 and in theory it seems it would work, if your able to control speed and direction of the spindle with Gcode. We should have a conversation about it. It would be easy for you to test it out on your machine and you would know before hand.

@GiovanniEsposito5

11 ай бұрын

@@RapidChangeATC Unfortunately I can't control speed and direction trough gcode on the kress fm1050. There are newer version that can, but upgrading to a vfd generic chinese spindle make more sense money wise.

@RapidChangeATC

11 ай бұрын

@@GiovanniEsposito5 That is unfortunate. But yes the generic VFDs are much less expensive and work well. If you do switch over I would recommend a Huanyang VFD regardless of the spindle make and model as they are the best documented. I have five and I have never had a problem with them.

@GiovanniEsposito5

11 ай бұрын

@@RapidChangeATC thanks so much for the quick reply and sorry for the long delay of mine. I will look into it asap.

@RapidChangeATC

11 ай бұрын

@@GiovanniEsposito5 No worries my friend! thank you for your interest and taking the time to comment and ask questions!